Early Life and Education
Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz was born in a Sunni Muslim family in Baghdad. His brother was the plant ecologist, Fakhri A. Bazzaz.
He completed both his elementary school and high school in Baghdad. Al-Bazzaz graduated from the Baghdad Law College in 1934. Then Al-Bazzaz in 1938 completed his law studies at King's College of London University. In the 1930s, he became an affiliate of the Muthanna and Jawwal clubs, the academic focus of which was pan-Arabism and encouragement of Arab nationalism. The Muthanna club was established in Baghdad 1935 and was an influential radical pan-Arab and pan-Islamic fascist society which collapsed with the Rashid Ali al-Kaylani rebellion. In 1941 Al-Bazzaz supported the failed Rashid Ali al-Kaylani rebellion against the British. After the fail attempt at revolution Al-Bazzaz was incarcerated during World War II and eventually released at the end of WW II.
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